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Comment Re:Download vyatta (Score 0) 164

"I do, and I do it well." Numerous studies have been done that demonstrate that people consistently overvalue their contribution/abilities. But that's not on-topic, so enough of that. I will absolutely grant you that there are a many, many cases where someone's ends may be served by plopping down unrepresentative software onto unrepresentative hardware, call it test network, don't care about the difference, and may not be any the worse for it. However, there *are* a large class of problems and are in *no* way served by this. It's not a matter of not appreciating "free stuff", as I certainly do. But a test network that shares nothing in common with my production network isn't work squat. It's probably that we're just working at substantially different tolerances. regards

Comment Re:Out of hours changes, and change managment (Score 0) 164

We had a name for change mangagement in a previous position I had -- Change Prevention. The problem is that when certain things are very fragile *and* core to your operations, and totally not understood by those that are making the process decisions, change management is an impediment on the road to looming potential semi-disaster. I simply had an agreement with my manager. I could make changes in production, but if things ever went belly up, he'd have to instantly fire me. This worked for the better part of my last year until I decided that the whole thing just wasn't the right place for me. Test, test, test until you can't stand it any longer, know what it takes to pull it back out, push it out on Sunday night and sleep under your desk until about a half hour before the market opens. Don't bother having any personal stuff at work in case it's your last day. Easy!

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